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A. A. PARKER.

HITGHING POST.

Patented Sept. 20, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC ARTHUR A. PARKER, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

HlTCHlNG-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,158, dated September 20, 1887.

Application filed January 20, 1887.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR A. PARKER, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented an ImprovementinHitching-Posts, of which the following is a specification.

In Letters Patent No. 334,719, granted to me, a sheet-metal ease filled with cement is described, the same forming a post adapted to fences.

The present invention is an improvement upon my said patented device; and it relates to a hollow cap forming the top of the said post, for strengthening the same and adapting the post to use for hitching purposes.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the upper part of the post and cap, and Fig. 2 is a section of the same at the line 00 w.

The sheet-metal case a is in the form of a tube, preferably tapering, and it may be either round or square. I have shown it as round. The hollow cap I) is of east-iron and hollow, and it is provided with a flange, 2, around its bottom edge, that receives within it the top end of the sheet-metal case a, and the ease and hollow cap are filled with cement mixed with sand and small stones or pieces of stone, so that the cap and the case will be permanently connected, and the cap, being of rigid east- Serial No. 224,844. (No model.)

iron, is better adapted to withstand the action of horses teeth than the sheetnietal top in my posts, patented as aforesaid; and to still more firmly secure the cap in place I prefer to use a headed wire or rod, d, passing down through a hole in the cap into the inside of the case and having a hooked end, so as to form an anchor into the cement that is filled into the post around such anchor; and to provide for attaching the horse orother animal I insert a bolt, f, through the post and secure it by the nut 4, and there is an eye for the reception of the ring h. The bolt is preferably placed through the post before filling it with cement.

I claim as my invention The combination, in apost, of a sheet-metal case, a hollow east-iron cap having a flange surrounding the upper end of the sheet metal, an anchoring-rod connected to the cap and extending down inside the post, and a filling of cement connecting all the parts, substantially as set forth. Y Signed by me this 17th day of January, 1887.

A. A. PARKER.

Witnesses:

(E0. '1. PINoKNEY, WILLIAM G. Mo'r'r. 

